Reddit Decline and Outages

Users discuss Reddit's outages, growing irrelevance, and various frustrations like censorship and UI changes, with many expressing they have quit or plan to quit the platform.

πŸ“‰ Falling 0.2x Other
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Activity Over Time

2007
30
2008
47
2009
44
2010
67
2011
102
2012
119
2013
84
2014
71
2015
154
2016
155
2017
147
2018
166
2019
186
2020
376
2021
412
2022
341
2023
1,192
2024
364
2025
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2026
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Keywords

HN EVIL REDDIT BIG reddit.com Teddit.net CCP reddit old reddit reddit com stop using subreddits stopped visiting censorship com anymore

Sample Comments

petewailes β€’ Apr 14, 2011 β€’ View on HN

The downsides of not hanging around on Reddit anymore...

xyzzy21 β€’ May 7, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Reddit has become irrelevant so good luck with that!

sleepyshift β€’ Jun 8, 2021 β€’ View on HN

Looks like this has taken out Reddit at least.

pingswept β€’ Jan 27, 2009 β€’ View on HN

I guess this is what happened to reddit.

buzzert β€’ Jun 14, 2021 β€’ View on HN

This sounds like a Reddit-wide problem. I stopped going to Reddit years ago because of this.

sondr3 β€’ Feb 21, 2023 β€’ View on HN

Can't wait for this to be one of the reasons the hard deprecated old reddit :(

soultrees β€’ Jul 21, 2023 β€’ View on HN

Unfortunately, Reddit is a no go zone anymore.

jqpabc123 β€’ Sep 28, 2023 β€’ View on HN

Maybe it's time to opt out of Reddit.

batirch β€’ Apr 23, 2020 β€’ View on HN

Reddit did the same thing. Don't use as much as i use before.

PurpleFoxy β€’ Dec 26, 2020 β€’ View on HN

That’s the day I stop using reddit